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Happy New Year - May 2026 *Not* Be A Disaster!
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 at 6:23PM 
If you were CINEMA itself, what would your New Year's Resolutions be?
Can't wait to hear your answers...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 at 6:23PM
Reader Comments (16)
More movies theaters.
More movies watched in movie theaters.
Better movies.
The Academy doing better.
More quality.
More talent.
More light.
Happy New Year!
May 2026 be full of light!
✨️🙏🏻✨️
Fabio - love those
I will co-sign those and add:
COMEBACK MOMENT LIKE AMY MADIGAN & DEMI MOORE RECENTLY GOT FOR OTHER GREAT STARS OF THE 1970S THROUGH 1990S
TO DISCOVER THE NEXT DIRECTOR WHO CAN SHAPE THE MUSICAL TO HIS WILL (AND DO IT SERVICE IN RETURN) IN A BRILLIANT WAY LIKE BOB FOSSE
MORE RESPECT FOR "LIGHT" GENRES WHEN THEY'RE DONE WELL LIKE COMEDIES, MUSICALS, SLICE OF LIFE FILMS, ROMCOMS.
Yes, Nathaniel!
And Honorary Awards back to Oscar Ceremony... ❤️
Yes, I'm a Film Historian and also a silly movie lover. 😀
I yearn for a return to storytelling.
Films with a premise that is captivating, twists that hold our attention, and a resolution that makes sense and is satisfying.
Films with performances that are enthralling and bigger than life, made for celluloid to be projected onto large screens.
Films with locales that transport audiences to exciting places of wonderment and visual interest.
But mostly I want a really good story.
And if it's not too much trouble, a clean bathroom.
The return of the movie theater experience.
Happy 2026!
Releasing non-oscar-bound festival hits in the spring and summer, instead of during the fall/winter prestige onslaught, please.
I shouldn't have to choose between Marty Supreme and Sound of Falling.
Plus longer theatrical windows.
Mike -- longer theatrical windows is where it's at. I veryrarely see movies a second time in theaters now and it's not because I dont want to. It's just that in past years I would wait a month (always something new to see) because sometimes you get an itch for a certain movie. But now they're gone :( just as you're yearning for them again (or cost $20 to rent)
Hollywood needs to stop it's short window span for films in the cinema.
I know this is terrible but as a film fan I stopped going because A it's far too expensive and B in immediatley or in roughly 4 weeks I can watch it at home.
I have become the problem.
I would rather sit in the conformt of my own home,go to my own toilet,stop a movie and do something better if it's total rubbish or it's boring me and have a free snack while i watch it and discuss and have immediate interaction on what's happening whilst it's playing.
I watched Frankenstein on netflix and am so glad I did because i'd have wasted time and money seeing the unscary ugly lumbering thing and i'm not talking about Elord's monster make up.
My main gripe now with films is the lighting,night never looks like night any longer,it's some weird green/blue colour.
Can set designers/costumers/hair dressers please look and study the movies if making a period film for the 80's and 90's,sticking leg warmers,using familiar songs or putting a Star Wars/Pulp Fiction poster up does not an era make,watch and what they talked about back then,how they dressed,how they interracted,what was in the zeitgeist and you will see what it was like.
So many films of the 80's and 90's use modern vernacular and have the clothes and hair incorrect,somethings off,it's just surface and superficial.
Is it just me cos I was born in that era.
Oh and another thing please stop casting people based on internet followings,I for one am sick to death as talented as some of them are of Pascal,Hoult,Butler,McKay,Mescal,Chalamet,O'Connor,Taylor Johnson,Pullman,A Sarsgaard for the men and Johnson,Taylor Joy,Robbie,Qualley,Zendaya,Johansson,MIrren for the women.
Stop casting nepo babies,give the jobbing actor a chance.
- Death to Netflix movies and everything that means. From the (lack of) script to the artificial look.
- Death to the streaming services release model.
- For commercial, mainstream movies to be magic once again. A perfect balance of thrills, visual effects and solid storytelling.
- Death to franchises.
- Death to IP.
- Death to legacy sequels.
- Smarter audiences, in terms of their choices, taste and behavior.
- More movie theaters.
- Better movies all around.
- NO "conservative" movies, EVER.
Happy new year to everyone. Let's hope 2026 is not a major cunt like 2025 was. <3
To give Sigourney Weaver a truly great, NON-AVATOR, NON-SCIENCE FICTION, NON-FRANCISE role.
I'd love to see her return to projects as challenging as THE ICE STORM, WORKING GIRL, GORILLAS IN THE MIST.
If Judi Dench could hit her stride late into her career, I hold out hope for Sigourney!
@Sad Man-AMEN!!!!! Fuck 2025. Oh, and make movie tickets cheaper and with less commercials/shit film trailers. AND FUCK AI!!!!
If I were CINEMA, my New Year’s resolution would be: fewer remakes, more original stories… and a little extra style on the side 😉🎬✨
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Since I have tons of AMC gift cards that my family seems to give me every holiday season, my wish for a better moviegoing experience is for this theater chain to start the movie at the advertised start time. If I go to a ‘2:00 pm’ matinee screening of OBAA, I usually get there at 1:30 pm to make sure that I get the seat that I reserve (without coming later and finding it occupied). After suffering/actually sleeping through the early advertisements, promotions, behind the scenes features, movie quizzes (What actor won an Oscar for Forrest Gump?), finally the lights dim. Now I sit through at least 7 trailers, Nicole Kidman whispering about the magic of movies, turn off your phone reminders, the feature finally begins at 2:28 pm. Having gone to my seat at 1:30, now I must endure 3 hours of Wicked 2 or 3 1/2 hours of OBAA or 4 more hours of Killers of the Flower Moon. Again, I’m not getting there at 2:25 to find my selected seat occupied, then getting the manager. Luckily, my ‘second rate’ movie theater shows the previews first, then the movie starts as advertised, 2:00pm. Perhaps AMC could make the adult movie going experience better because I’ve gotten to the point where I just regift these gift cards to people who want to sit through 25 minutes of trailers.
Everything TOM mentioned above is true as I also get a bunch of AMC cards. I literally have to make spreadsheets so I can plan to see 2 movies in one day since you have to take into account at least 30 minutes of previews.
I am hoping films cast more overlooked veterans- DAVID S mentions Weaver as well as unknown talent hungry to break through.
As we have at least 4 foreign films in contention for Best Picture- release more foreign films to a wider audience for a longer screening window.
Give James Hong the honorary Oscar!
@DAVID S. You may get your wish! Sigourney is soon co-starring with no other than MERYL STREEP in the film "Useful Idiots".
imdb: "Follows veteran New York property market journalist Diane Castle (Streep) who investigates a record-breaking penthouse sale, uncovering a web of corruption and danger involving a mysterious oligarch that threatens her family.".
IMDB lists it as "Prep-production".
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